Example sentences of "[noun sg] [am/are] [adj] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're trying to the horrors of central government diktat are all closing upon this city . |
| 2 | It points to the impact that the findings of global environmental research are likely to have on most sectors of the UK economy . |
| 3 | Mis-recognitions and errors of spelling are impossible to distinguish from each other , given the nature of the data output from the pattern recogniser , however they should be detected and corrected if possible . |
| 4 | Current British plans to burn less coal and to install desulphurisation equipment are modest compared to those of other European countries . |
| 5 | The head can be identified as that of Hercules from the club around his neck , but it is a very unusual representation of Hercules : the absence of a beard , the diadem , the upturned eye and the hairstyle are all derived from that of the great conqueror Alexander the Great ( compare fig. 14 ) . |
| 6 | The 12 traditions of each Anonymous Fellowship are all derived from those of Alcoholics Anonymous and they protect against this particular risk by emphasising that the most important member is the newcomer and that leaders are but trusted servants ; they do not govern . |
| 7 | The disadvantages faced by the labour-only sub-contractor are numerous compared to those of the directly employed operative . |
| 8 | The lessons of one political movement are vital to relate to many others . |
| 9 | Both planning and control are difficult to achieve in this form of production . |
| 10 | Heckling , or seeking temporarily to disrupt the speaker are insufficient to amount to such an offence . |
| 11 | The effects upon the services with which this book is concerned and upon the behaviour of local government are hard to predict at this stage . |
| 12 | If the housing market in southern England remains as tight as it stands in 1988 , then the problems created by recent trends in social polarization are unlikely to diminish at any of the three scales treated in this chapter . |
| 13 | Prospects for the current year are difficult to predict at this early stage . |